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Sadly, Latest Research Showing No Advantage of SSD on Virtual Machine. Older SSDs showing decline in performance which is not a cost saving fact.
Benefits of desktop virtualization for businesses is a multi part, case-study like topic. Management and Flexibility part, is the last but not the least part.
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Virtualization tech, cloud computing and the proliferation of end-user edge devices are radically changing how data protection needs to be applied in the Data Center. There is no one size fits all approach. Backup needs to be flexible enough to work with existing applications while enabling IT to seamlessly protect data as they transition to “software-defined” infrastructure and hybrid cloud environments. http://storageswiss.com/2014/04/09/what-does-software-defined-mean-for-data-protection/
Open Stack and Open vStorage. What are they and why should you want to run VMs on your OpenStack infrastructure? To answer those questions, George Crump from Storage Switzerland and Wim Provoost from Open vStorage join me on the podcast. Click Here To Sign Up For Our Newsletter
Server-side flash solutions have become the most commonly implemented methods for solving virtualization performance issues. But what about the large numbers of bare-metal servers in data centers that also require high performance? We discuss that question an a lot more in our webinar available now On Demand. Just click on the link above to watch the webinar with SanDisk’s Rick Petersen and Storage Switzerland’s founder George Crump. https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/5583/108175
The initial ROI of virtualization projects has been impressive. 10X reductions in physical servers have led to significant cost savings. This has only scratched the surface of the savings potential for virtualization, there is more ROI to uncover. The cost of designing a storage infrastructure to respond to the random I/O of a consolidated architecture remains a key limitation. http://www.storage-switzerland.com/Articles/Entries/2013/3/21_Cost_Effectively_Increasing_VM_Density.html
We will discuss the testing methodology and scalability results for 4 & 8 node clustered Hitachi NAS Platform 4000 systems yielding 15,000 VMs in real-world enterprise environments. The test establishes linear performance scalability as nodes are added to the cluster, providing a solid platform for VMware vSphere-based environments. Highly scalable virtual machine architectures are typically…
VeloBit claims that its new VDI-specific software, based on their mature HyperCache product, can significantly increase virtual desktop density and do so on moderately configured servers with inexpensive SAN shared storage. The goal of our lab test was to determine whether a practical VDI system could be deployed within a limited budget ($50K) http://www.storage-switzerland.com/Articles/Entries/2013/4/9_Making_Storage_the_VDI_Solution,_Not_the_Problem.html
Disk backup as the primary backup target is so popular in VMware environments because of the functionality disk backup enables. The combination of high VM count and smaller, more continuous file transfers, plus the need to provide temporary production performance, requires a unique type of disk backup system. Legacy disk backup often are not up to the challenge. http://www.storage-switzerland.com/Articles/Entries/2013/4/17_Why_VMware_Disk_Backup_Is_Broken.html
The first generation of Software Defined Storage (SDS 1.0) was an important step forward for storage management, as it opened up choice within the data center while bringing some semblance of centralized management. SDS 2.0 takes the next step by eliminating the volume/LUN construct and turning storage allocation into a simple assignment of available capacity,…
Before hypervisors like VMware, Hyper-V and KVM came to market, data centers had few options when it came to managing the growth of their server infrastructure. They could buy one big server that ran multiple applications, which, while it simplified operations and support, meant that one application was at the mercy of the other applications…
Companies expect a lot from a VDI project, so they expect their storage infrastructure to step up too. But what if the storage system they bought for VDI could benefit other applications as well? In this new article from Storage Switzerland we discuss what IT needs from VDI storage, why storage Quality of Service is important and how to get more than VDI from VDI storage. http://storageswiss.com/2014/05/08/vdi-storage-should-do-more-than-just-vdi/
For simplicity, most storage administrators create a finite number of LUNs for their VMware Infrastructure and assign as many virtual machine (VM) datastores to each LUN as possible. Management is simplified thanks to a limited number of LUNs but it makes storage management of the individual VM more difficult. VMware administrators need a finer grain…
Watch our On-Demand webinar and learn how to design cost effective Storage Systems for Hyper-V http://storageswiss.com/2014/06/13/designing-cost-effective-storage-systems-for-hyper-v/
An increasing number of vendors are offering quality of service (QoS) capabilities for their storage systems. But the ability for these system to assure storage performance quality to mission critical applications is suspect at best. Guaranteeing virtualized application performance requires a scalable storage infrastructure that understands specific performance requirements. http://storageswiss.com/2014/01/08/is-qos-enough-to-ensure-virtualized-application-performance/
Server-side Flash is only as strong as its weakest link, particularly in heavily virtualized environments. So choosing the right flash software technology matters. Solutions that cluster server-side Flash and RAM allow businesses to accelerate all storage IO workloads (read & write) while improving performance reliability. http://storageswiss.com/2014/04/29/decision-criteria-for-purchasing-storage-acceleration-software/
Successful VDI deployments must satisfy three groups within the enterprise: 1) users, who want the same experience they had with their desktop PCs; 2) IT managers, who want to simplify operations and reduce risk; and 3) the CFO, who wants predictable capital costs that are comparable to (or better than) desktop PCs - at a…
When evaluating a new storage system, especially an all-flash array, the number of IOPS (Inputs/Outputs per Second) that the storage system can sustain is often used to differentiate one storage system from another. But is this really a standard that has any merit given the demands of today’s data center and the capabilities of today’s…
